2.

3.

“I wonder if I will remember this as the winter where everyone died but I wasn’t overcome with sadness.”

— Chrissy Stockton

4.

“it is a tuesday when i love someone
who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time,
but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time
but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand,
soars like a child in a rocket ship,
doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe
in learning a lesson. wants to give
until there is nothing left but glitter.”

8.

9.

“It’s been three years since I’ve spent
the night with someone who liked me
enough to get breakfast in the morning.
Still, I spread my heart thin like butter
on toast, hoping someone else will come
along and snatch it off my plate.”

12.

13.

“Everything hurts and no one is telling me how to heal.
I meditate with rose quartz resting in my palms.
I eat more bananas.
I make a spell with bat’s wings and dandelion water.
something has to work,
but I am waiting, at the end of my rope,
braiding my hair into broken,
twisted cusps of thread,
in a desperate way of begging the universe
to put me somewhere safe.”

14.

“I hated him most
for not having the courage
to ruin us grandly.
To break all the dishes
and burn down the house.
Instead he sunk quiet
into the arms of a beautiful,
weak little bird.
Denied me my spilled blood,
my great war, everything
except his confession.”